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Not your typical Greenfield analysis. Give it a read!
Posted on 01/18/2012 11:36:52 PM PST by expat1000
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Greenfield is just so amazing!
Oh what I would give to have his ability to discern the truth and articulate it so well!
He is so spot on when he says
“Revolutions begin with an open contempt for and anger at the existing order. The left knows that. It is why it fears talk radio and populism more than it fears the latest set of dapper gatekeepers we send to the Senate. The contempt and anger are here, the more they go public, the more the power of the left is shaken. And the next step is to expand the cultural war to a specific disrespect and hostility for the values and sacred cows of the left. Then to challenge their institutions and regulations. And then real political change can begin with candidates who are revolutionaries because they believe it, or because they are operating under a new paradigm that is outside the left’s manufactured consensus.
Most of the elements are already in place. The consensus establishment is making its last stand, but it is fading. It is now a race between shaping public anger into a vehicle for political change and the speed at which the left is transforming and fragmenting the country to prevent a political revolution of the right from ever coming about. May we be swift for if the left wins the race then it is the end of America.”
The left is pulling out all the stops now that they can see the demise of our republic so close at hand. Their relentless attacks on anyone that might shine even a weak light on their evil intentions is frightening.
The attacks on the conservatives seeking the republican nomination are a case in point. And now, just when Newt is pulling ahead of Romney again in the polls they are doing all they can to obliterate him.
This has the foul smell of The Chicago Way about it! :-(
We have arrived at a critical juncture, The stooge that has been set up to lose to Obama is in serious trouble.
Newt, a man with the ability to crush Obama in the general election, once again, against all odds, rises to the occasion, ready to do battle.
The RINO powerful have come to the conclusion that Obama, due to vote fraud, MSM backing, the size of his war chest, and his willingness to break any rule or law.. will prevail in November. And so they bring forth yet another weak candidate to hopefully lose gracefully and perhaps enable them to retain some power in the House and Senate and thereby maintain access to the perks of power.
Newt is a man of awesome intellectual abilities, not a perfect man, nor a humble man to be sure. But he is a man who has humbled himself before God and made his peace with his demons.
The corrupt Chicago machine seeks to exhume the corpse of Newt’s past and parade it before the electorate in a desperate attempt to destroy him before he can rout the anointed GOP nominee and in so doing become a mortal threat to Obama.
They know that Newt is a fearless warrior who will not shrink from airing the stinking load of soiled laundry that is the Obama administration. He will not be silenced, he cannot be intimidated, he stubbornly refuses to be controlled. He will say that which they dread to hear. He is their worst nightmare sprung to life.
When Newt exercised power what did he do? what were the results of what he did? Were you pleased? These are the true measure of the man.
If we fail to support Mr Gingrich at this critical time I feel we will be abandoning our one best hope to stop this nation’s slide into an immoral abyss. We will have cried out for a champion to save us, and then when God raised up a Gideon, we refused him because he was not a perfect man.
There was ever only one perfect man.....all the rest can only beg forgiveness and strive to do the best they can.
(Gideon, from the Hebrew: which means “Destroyer,” “Mighty warrior”, or “Feller of trees”)
Knock 'em if you like, but they've been successful at changing the terms of the debate. The old command-and-control liberalism is becoming outdated as we speak. Even the greenies are claiming they "accept the market."
And, of course, the heart of the Ron Paul faction is young folks.
[Yes, I know the government's still getting bigger...but you have to remember that the Progressives grabbed the consensus wheel when the U.S. government was still laissez-faire. Policy is a lagging indicator.]
The question remains, though: do social conservatives want to be revolutionary? Revolutionism, even in the mild sense meant by the author, is about as un-conservative as you can get. One advantage the libertarians have over social conservatives is that the former don't mind being called radical.
Revolutionaries are rarer. They are dangerous and explosive. Sometimes they are erratic. They are full of ideas, determined and unwilling to compromise. They rarely make good politicians, but sometimes they make very explosive ones. Find the political leader whom the rest of the party hates and can't wait to get rid of for his obstructionism and sabotage of the gatekeeper agenda, and you may have found a revolutionary.
The revolutionaries cannot transform this mess or turn back the clock solely through their elected office, but they can dismantle the power bases of the other side and they can support and help create counterbalancing institutions. But their most valuable contribution is a refusal to accept the consensus, they refuse to do business at the exchange price set for them by the left.
That's a long article. I thought I'd pick out what stood out for me. Gatekeepers or revolutionaries, which do we want?
That’s a very good post! Thank you!
Bump!
Good comment - thanks.
When ever in the history of time did the so called ‘libertarians’ ever lead a charge and hold together a ‘civil’ productive society. What exactly is the ultimate goal of libertarians, it sure is not self discipline?
Gideon was NOT in any way, shape, fashion, or form a ‘libertarian’, he listened to and followed the Instruction given.
“Politics is based around a consensus. The left does not operate on a consensus, it is a revolutionary movement and it works by subverting the consensus and presenting its revolutionary position as the new consensus. All that is left for the politicians then is to affirm the new consensus. This has happened over and over again in the lifetimes of even the youngest person reading this article and the process has been accelerating lately because it s a revolutionary process.”
That, my friends, is very, very good.
The power of the left is not political. Its political power is the least of what it is. It leverages its cultural dominance to enforce a political consensus. It uses its grip on power through government and non-governmental institutions to impose regulations and laws that politicians from both parties end up signing on to. It is an establishment, an incarnation of the power and privilege of a fossilized ideology built to destroy the country, but leveraged to give its leading members and some of its base a taste of the really good life while the whole edifice of civilization slides down the cliff.
I think the goal posts of political correctness have been moved so that 'fossilized ideology' can now be identified as socialism and associated with our dear leader. Well, it's a start.
Very good indeed. Homosexuality is a perfect example. Twenty-five years ago it was regarded as it had been through the ages, a filthy practice by perverts.
Now, they are not only another protected rat victim group, but unless the brakes are applied quickly, we will be forced to accept nationwide homo marriage as a Natural Right.
"You guys".. Hmm..
Revolutionism, even in the mild sense meant by the author, is about as un-conservative as you can get.
Only if you define conservatism as supporting the status quo no matter what it is. Then you get into absurdities like having to call the East German commissars 'conservatives' and the folks that overthrew them 'radicals'.
Libertarians lack and despise the moral compass.
I cannot disagree, and there has never been one or will be one that could fill Gideon's sandals.
Agreed...! But Ron Paul “ain’t” Gideon.
Gideon was a servant of God.
“(Joshua 24:15
And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD)”
Ron Paul is the servant of the “if it feels go do it crowd....!
Unfortunately the majority do not have a clue who Gideon was and what a 'servant' he was. Ron Paul is an old man that I guess believes his own words, but I sure cannot follow his trains of thoughts. Actually, I have given up trying. I just look at him as an old man that has garnered a Messianic type following and who knows what is next for them.
It's what they say it is. Governemnt confined to retaliatory force against coercers who violate others' individual rights.
Unfortunately the majority do not have a clue who Gideon was and what a 'servant' he was. Ron Paul is an old man that I guess believes his own words, but I sure cannot follow his trains of thoughts. Actually, I have given up trying. I just look at him as an old man that has garnered a Messianic type following and who knows what is next for them.
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